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. . .It will miraculously reappear in 2011.

Names will be removed, names will be added, madam Waziri will go into hyper-drive. . . Ugly picture in the crystalball

Hehehehe! Could it really be?
Is the finger spitting the face?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.

By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat
Published: 7:30AM BST 03 Oct 2009

Ahmadinejad showing papers during election. It shows that his family's previous name was Jewish A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.

Funny, you don't look Jewish? The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.

Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad's track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.

Ali Nourizadeh, of the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies, said: "This aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's background explains a lot about him.

"Every family that converts into a different religion takes a new identity by condemning their old faith.

"By making anti-Israeli statements he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. He feels vulnerable in a radical Shia society."

A London-based expert on Iranian Jewry said that "jian" ending to the name specifically showed the family had been practising Jews.

"He has changed his name for religious reasons, or at least his parents had," said the Iranian-born Jew living in London. "Sabourjian is well known Jewish name in Iran."

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in London said it would not be drawn on Mr Ahmadinejad's background. "It's not something we'd talk about," said Ron Gidor, a spokesman.

The Iranian leader has not denied his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s. But he has never revealed what it was change from or directly addressed the reason for the switch.

Relatives have previously said a mixture of religious reasons and economic pressures forced his blacksmith father Ahmad to change when Mr Ahmadinejad was aged four.

The Iranian president grew up to be a qualified engineer with a doctorate in traffic management. He served in the Revolutionary Guards militia before going on to make his name in hardline politics in the capital.

During this year's presidential debate on television he was goaded to admit that his name had changed but he ignored the jibe.

However Mehdi Khazali, an internet blogger, who called for an investigation of Mr Ahmadinejad's roots was arrested this summer.

Mr Ahmadinejad has regularly levelled bitter criticism at Israel, questioned its right to exist and denied the Holocaust. British diplomats walked out of a UN meeting last month after the Iranian president denounced Israel's 'genocide, barbarism and racism.'

Benjamin Netanyahu made an impassioned denunciation of the Iranian leader at the same UN summit. "Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium," he said. "A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the State of Israel, the State of the Jews. What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations."

Mr Ahmadinejad has been consistently outspoken about the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race. "They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he declared at a conference on the holocaust staged in Tehran in 2006.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html


Ahmadinejad showing papers during election. It shows that his family's previous name was Jewish

The country is in deep trouble. Life is brutish for the poor.
Forget about credit, we don't have that only because there are no financial instruments or instituitions. Everything is in chaos.
Manageable credit is a very enabling thing.

As for our poverty index. . . It is bloody shocking!

Confusion, chaos, wikedness, corruption, theft. . . Yeah, life is cheap in 9ja.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=332857.msg4676411#msg4676411 date=1254826157]why you dey give me de kind credit wey i no deserve? e be like say i don impress you well well, you sabi say na small ting dey required to impress small minds

btw, de day wey i hear say you and ya mend people don blow up one of de mansions of una thieving leaders, i go know say una serious. dis one wey una dey blow up pipeline wey dey result to more polution and possible cancer and other diseases for una people, makes no sense at all. amphibian vehicles dey on their way.[/quote]You've been announcing this amphibious vehicle thing like some aparthied activist. Who is going to man the vehicles, if not the same clueless guys that can't swim? They are only good at bombing and straffing people at festivals (that has been recommended to the International Court of Justice for investigation). Una no get shame, "we are importing amphibious vehicles and other very bad shit from Isreal, blah, blah". . . All to to threaten civilians; people that behave that way are usually wife beaters. Fucking cowards. Anyway, you guys aren't the owners of the market, others can go there too.

In case you missed it, his thread is about Soludo (but then, you miss a lot of things).
I wonder why you are so engrossed with MEND; was anybody from your family unfortunate to be part of JTF in Warri? You have my sympathy; we know what MEND and crocodiles did to JTF (and will do again if need be).

Guy, forget about pipelines, this is about CBN.

Curiously, Tompolo refused to sign the amnesty denunciation form for repentant militants when he met with the President in Abuja. In place of the form, the militant leader signed a document he had prepared and brought from his Oporoza base on his own letterhead.

Although information on the contents of the document remained sketchy, it contained Tompolo’s own ‘proclamation’ for the acceptance of amnesty.

His people always maintained that he would never accept the "amnesty", so it aint surprising that he took his own proclamation for signing.
Tompolo is a very decent and reliable guy.

It really depends on your target market. Either choose the right tool for the job at hand or target a market that fits the tool you have expertise in.

Here's some general advice:
If you are building home pages and other small stuff, scripting languages like Ruby and PHP, MySql, text files, MS Access are fine.
If your development is targeted at run off the mill, bog standard enterprise websites; java is ok if your target market is a bit hampered by cost. C++ is a mismatch for the web, don't go there.
For the top range web market, nothing out there can touch ASP.NET for a blend of raw power and rapid development; this includes highly scalable banking and transactional websites, massively multiplayer gaming sites etc.

For database servers; the most popular are MSSql Server and MySql. MSSql Server beats MySql by a very wide margin; but Oracle is by far the best performer (also, the most complicated).
There are other database server types like DB2 and PostgreSQL, you can simply walk past these ones; don't waste your time.

Whatever you do in life, never target the PHP/MySql combination on high traffic, always available sites that must scale; or you will shed many bitter tears.

^
Hmmm. Surgical implants?

CoolG vs prettyG vs ndu_chucks

Femi Ijakoko- He is Gov Segun Oni’s thug and until recently, was second in Command to Erinmoje. He's since taken over as no 1. He was wearing a flowing buba & sokoto (Milk colour). He bites one of the journalists as a lion would tear through the flesh of its prey.

Damn!
Biting for 2011 has already started.

Governor Oni needs to be brought down.

Nigeria, the country governed by rumuor and the likes of ndu_chucks

If Soludo is guilty of anything, he should be charged to court. This whole rumour thing is enhancing the present govts image as an expensive circus.

What a joker this guy is! He seems to be approaching 100% panic mode.
This Ibori issue will expose the FG's looting machinery. Never too soon.

. . .The saga continues

Ibori: Nigeria, Britain set for diplomatic row
From Lanre Adewole and Oluwatoyin Malik -
Sunday, October 4, 2009

A major diplomatic row between Nigeria and Britain may be brewing over the controversial money laundering trial of former Delta State governor, James Ibori, in a Southwark Crown Court in London.

The burgeoning crisis is reportedly stoked by the refusal of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), to endorse the release of 25 witnesses from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC} for the trial.

After establishing a prima facie case of money laundering against Ibori and three of his relatives, the British government, through the Metropolitan Police, had requested Nigeria, through the EFCC, to allow 25 operatives to testify against Ibori since the commission also investigated the former governor on the alleged offence in Nigeria.

Britain and Nigeria have mutual understanding on fight against corruption with both as signatories to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty {MLAT}, on which Britain premised its request.

After many twists and turns in the handling of the request by the office of the AGF, Sunday Tribune exclusively gathered that Aondoakaa may have finally resolved not to allow any evidence or witnesses from Nigeria to be part of the London trial, which may not survive without the evidence from the Nigerian government.

After he was accused of shielding Ibori from trial, the minister, said recently that he had no constitutional right to stop any Nigerian from testifying abroad.

He asked EFCC for a formal request for the release of the witnesses, which the commission reportedly tabled before him through its Secretary, Emmanuel Akomaye.

The initial report was that the minister had approved the request, but he came out a few days later to say that he would not cooperate with Britain over the trial because Nigeria did not owe its former colonial master such favour.

The ding-dong between him and the Met Police led to a presidential intervention with President Umaru Yar’Adua reportedly summoning Aondoakaa and the chairman of EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri.

A presidential source revealed that Aondoakaa shocked everybody present at the meeting when he reportedly told the gathering, including the president, that nothing would make him release the witnesses, despite the Nigerian leader directing him to so do.

The source said all those present at the meeting took place were dazed that the minister could look the president in the face and say no to his directive.

According to the source, “The president directed Aondoakaa to release the witnesses but he just stood up and told everybody that he would not. He was confident as he told the president that he would be his (Yar’Adua’s) protector from Western powers. Though the president is still disposed to the witnesses going to testify, the minister appeared to have had the day because even the EFCC woman left here dazed”.

Another source alleged that the minister met with Ibori at his Asokoro residence immediately after rebuffing the president, allegedly to assure him that the path to his freedom had been secured.

The Metropolitan Police and the British government, who were said to have been banking on the assurance given them by the minister when he visited the Home Office two weeks ago, were said to have been shocked with the latest turn of event, with sources, adding that they might take severe diplomatic actions on the matter.

Sunday Tribune also learnt that, though some of the documents to be used for the trial are in possession of the Metropolitan Police, they would not be admissible in court unless endorsed by the office of the AG Federation.

A source quipped, “The MLAT gives too much power to the office of the AGF on issues like this. He {AGF} knows that without him, the documents would not be admissible in court, and that is what he is using in frustrating this {Ibori’s} case”.

With the stalling of the ex-governor’s trial in London, the stage may have been set for the quashing of his trial in an Asaba High Court in Delta State on October 26, 2009.

While preparing a dress rehearsal for his final position on the release of the witnesses, Aondoakaa had told journalists in Abuja last week that “are you saying Nigeria is answerable to other countries? Are you saying that whenever any request is made by any country I have no right to review it? Such request is an indictment of the country’s security and judicial system”.

“When I requested for evidence from UK on Halliburton scandal, I was told to wait, the same thing from France and Switzerland, they are yet to comply”.

“Let me make it clear on record that every Nigerian has a constitutional right of free movement and freedom of expression and therefore, the Office of the AGF will not breach the constitution by stopping anybody from testifying before any tribunal or court in Nigeria or outside, including the UK.

“Lastly, these people are witnesses, they are not accused persons and they have a right to go anywhere to give oral testimony. “I will never prevent any Nigerian from testifying,” he said.

Reacting the Special Assistant to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Anthony Aikhunegbe Malik, refuted it, saying the AGF had already given approval to the EFCC to go ahead with the witnesses subject to the provisions under the Mutual Legal Assistant Treaty (MLAT).

“I don’t know why the issue is coming up again. I thought we had put that past us. The EFCC wrote the AGF seeking clearance on the list of witnesses to be released to testify in the UK and he has since given approval,” Mr. Malik stated.

On the issue of defying Yar’Adua’s order, the Special Assistant challenged anyone who witnessed the meeting to come out in the open. “Was the person present at the meeting? Nobody could have known what transpired during a meeting that was held by the president with the AGF, the EFCC chairman and few others because it was not made public.

“It affects elementary common sense. The AGF will not defy the president directive, he can only advise him on issues. No AGF will do that, he won’t be in government the next day. That will be primitive and the AGF knows the law.

“All these allegations are prety and are coming from his detractors, but the AGF will not be deterred neither will he relent in his efforts towards enthroning and entrenching rule of law in the country. Everything he does is predictated on the rule of law,” the aide said.

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/oct/4/603.html

This is why MEND was able to send them the crocodiles in 20's and 30's, until they offered amnesty. Wretched country.
Modern warfare is all about the information grid, all Nigeria has are people that can barely operate a mark iv and think that a danfo is and APC.

Picture of a US Colonel (google "Colonel Dowling fallujah"
https://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/Colonel%20Dowling%20Fallujah.jpg


Picture of a Nigerian colonel

If all the people of the Niger Delta revoke citizenship, will that amount to secession?
I'm just wondering at a govt that can wilfully bomb its own people when they are gathered at a festival.
Or a govt where it can be mentioned that all Niger Delta people should be wiped out. Even Nazi Germany didn't wipe out 20 million Jews.

There is much to think about our country and hang our heads in shame.

@df2006
That is so true my brother. MEND has also stated several times that they are moving toward much more sophisticated warfare and that they will march the govt in weapons sophistication.
We hear that, in some of the most recent attacks, some oil wells were indeed destroyed remotely. JTF captured a MEND drone at one time, although MEND denied, claiming it was just a toy aeroplane.

It will not be fun and games in the future if the govt continues its disgraceful behaviour.
We pray for peace.

Tompolo, whose gunmen were behind many of the attacks against Nigeria's oil industry, handed over rocket launchers, machine guns and explosives to Defense Minister Godwin Abbe at a ceremony in his camp in Oporoza in the creeks of Delta state.

Tompolo was short of words during most of the hand over, able to utter only "all is well, all is well" to the crowd before bursting into tears.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5930U420091004?sp=true

Let us pray that the govt is sincere, because the next round of violence will surely engulf the nation. The whole of the Niger Delta is behind MEND.

We pray for peace.

Isn't this matter in court?
This investigation might prejudice the court decision, but I'm a layman, so I could be wrong.

This is most likely your picture. While you slum about the place selling hard stuff on street corners.

Fool. Fucking "tribalist" bum!

Oluwole student from Oluwole uni. I catch liar today!

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[size=14pt]"oil bonkery"[/size]

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Unu go kill person o!!

Next thing, you will add engineering to ALLLL the things you're "studying". Na so liars dey behave.

All educated nigerians know about how to spell common words. But your own education na oluwole, thats why your're like becomerich and egwofor in "creative speech". Fucking liar.

"oil bonkery"!

Fucking olodo!

sjeezy8:
first i cant spell now im inventing words

lol look at you from the delta and you dont know common terms used for stolen oil

why are you so dumb?

Fool, so you're even arguing that "oil bonkery" is legit? Damn!

Dis forgers go kill person o!

^You lied again. You said you were just starting uni.
Na wa o! In a couple of months "3 years" have already passed

Liar!!! You've been found.

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sjeezy8:
Beaf obviously finished at secondary school. He didnt know an undergrad major was need to enter law school.

Hes a dumb ass i thought yo attended something like University of delta and majored in oil bonkery OLE

but now i see you are just an idiot

WTF!!!

Fool can't even spell. Busy inventing words. Oluwole undergraduate!

I know you are just starting your uni because you said so.

sjeezy8:
^^^^ Dont worry ill be back in Naija by 2013 after law school/masters to take your jobs.

I can die of laughter. Fucking liar!

Sjeezy how did studying political science turn to studying law nah? Is it a tough question? Enh, Mr liar.

sjeezy8:
eyahhhh look at dis guy wantin to befriend me, i didnt tell you anything.

I said have uncles in PDP and AC get your facts straight clown, didnt you just sign an amnesty deal? Its time you and you dad to turn in your weapons for aprons, cause the governments fuckin you over like women.

Folks like me go to school to make a difference in the near future through politics, folks like you blow things up and steal oil.
Go to sleep jare

the job your parents failed to help you get connections for, you danfo driver of a guy

Address your lies. Don't worry about anything else, you've been caught pants down.

^How can someone calling you a liar be befriending you? You've got some warped reasoning man!

Ibime:
Dont flatter yourself. . . what logic have you employed in your arguments?

What happened to your argument that the sacking of the 5 CEOS was a "Northern agenda". . . . that was real logical of you wasn't it?. . . . I am guessing you've dropped that inane argument like a bad habit.

What also of your argument that Sanusi was trying to Islamise the banking sector?. . . . very logical indeed.

Pls dont employ sciolism when arguing facts. Imagine yourself rabbiting on about credit freeze.

Have the banks ever lent to the common entrepreneur on the street? Or do you want them to continue lending to the "phantom" oil coys that got us into all this mess?

Back up your statements on my position with quotations or admit that you are either putting words in my mouth or taking things out of context or plucking words from thin air. All are dishonest.
And when you quote me, please do it in the context of this article (no sly derailing).

Otherwise, stick firmly to the issues raised in the article (none of which you have attempted to address). Logic?

Ibime:
Dont be an idiot. . .

The only tension caused from the first round of audits was due to gullible people like yourself buying some hotchpotch story planted by executhieves in newspapers to befuddle the masses and deflect attention away from their corrupt practices.

If anything, you are the idiot.
I saw the error in Sanusi's gragra right from the start. But of course, there were the usual paid up folk dishing out abuse and nonsense in the face of superior logic.
I always held that Sanusi's methods would cost the economy. . . Banks aint lending even a miserable kobo now are they? Our spastic manufacturing sector has been ambushed and strangled, perhaps fatally. . . Forget about the oil sector. And you're talking about "delection", is there no due process to deal with corruption or when did agbero methods become the norm?

The effects of Sanusi's ill advised tactics of criminalising lendeing and borrowing is reverbrating through the economy right now. Only idiots aren't aware.

. . .Blind people, have a habit of hauling abuse instead of logic.

It was at the meeting before the mission to Saudi Arabia, that a distraught President was said to have directed the authorities of the State Security Services (SSS) to return all the passports of the bank chiefs, which the EFCC had seized in the course of the exercise, including those that were on the watch-list from the 14 banks, whose fate had not been determined.

There were reports, that international passports of chief executives of four banks, whose fate were hanging in the balance, had been seized. The President was said to have ordered the return of the passports, as he described the action as "overzealous" on the part of the CBN and the EFCC, even when no case had been established against the bank chiefs.

The Guardian confirmed, at the SSS Headquarters, that the passports had "been released to the owners on the order of the President."

It was said that, "the President believes that the background of the CBN governor, as a radical, may have influenced his recent action variously criticised as overzealous,  and the EFCC was affected by the 'radicalism' of the CBN governor, "

This might be the first sign that Sanusi's empire is falling. . .

Banks Audit: How Yar'Adua Defused Tension
From Martins Oloja (Abuja Bureau Chief)

INDICATIONS emerged from Aso Rock that President Umaru Yar'Adua had intervened in the 'policy support instrument' that has defused tension in the second phase of the banking reform unveiled on Friday.

The President was reportedly persuaded that the first phase of the bank audit created some avoidable noise, controversy and criticisms.

Specifically, The Guardian confirmed that on the day the President left for Saudi Arabia, he had directed three principal officers - the Finance Minister, the Chief Economic Adviser and Director-General of an Internal Security Organisation - to ensure that the Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, and the Chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, were more temperate, legalistic and less noisy in handling the ongoing reforms in the banking sector.

The reform has culminated in the release of the result of the second and final phase of the bank audit, with bank managing directors and executive directors removed on Friday in another gale of sanitisation.

This development came about when some CBN top officials denied the involvement of the Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Michael Aondoakaa and the Chief Economic Adviser, Mr. Tanimu Yakubu in the scrutiny of the audit report that was announced, as we had claimed on Friday.

A top official in the apex bank Governor's office had called the Abuja Bureau of The Guardian on Friday and said: "We take exception to the report that the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the Chief Economic Adviser's role in the scrutiny might delay the release of the report.

"Note that they have had no role to play in all this and we will release the report today," the official said.

The report was released that same Friday, but it was not clear whether there was a nexus between the release and the exclusive claim in the paper that the President had directed the Chief Aondoakaa and Mr. Yakubu to be part of the scrutiny team.

But it was confirmed that the quiet disposition and the diplomatic language used in the release of the report on Friday was largely influenced by the presidential insistence that the exercise should be devoid of flashpoint that had threatened to take the steam out of the banking reform during the first phase.

The President, said to have handed down this directive inside the State House before he left for Saudi Arabia the upper week, expressed displeasure about the "noise and controversy" that the exercise had generated because of the methods adopted by the CBN and the EFCC, despite his approval of the exercise itself.

He reportedly told the Finance Minister, the Chief Economic Adviser and the Director-General of the State Security Services, who were with him when he handed down the order, that the noise and controversy that attended the exercise "were clearly unnecessary."

A credible source close to the meeting, told journalists in Abuja that, "the President is a quiet operator, who does not enjoy the limelight that some people tried to enjoy while the noise lasted."

"The President believes that the chief executives and the executive directors could still have been removed quietly without heating up the polity and the economy."

The source continued: "It was believed that not too long ago, under another Sanusi Joseph, who was CBN Governor before Soludo, a number of clean-up operations was done including the seamless removal of Mr. Subomi Balogun, as chairman of First City Monument Bank'

"And the licenses of Savanah Bank and Societe Generale Bank were thereafter withdrawn without too much noise.

"So, the President ordered that they be temperate and more resourceful without demonising anyone including innocent ones during the exercise. He wants them to check their records and the law well before taking action."

It was at the meeting before the mission to Saudi Arabia, that a distraught President was said to have directed the authorities of the State Security Services (SSS) to return all the passports of the bank chiefs, which the EFCC had seized in the course of the exercise, including those that were on the watch-list from the 14 banks, whose fate had not been determined.

There were reports, that international passports of chief executives of four banks, whose fate were hanging in the balance, had been seized. The President was said to have ordered the return of the passports, as he described the action as "overzealous" on the part of the CBN and the EFCC, even when no case had been established against the bank chiefs.

The Guardian confirmed, at the SSS Headquarters, that the passports had "been released to the owners on the order of the President."

It was said that, "the President believes that the background of the CBN governor, as a radical, may have influenced his recent action variously criticised as overzealous,  and the EFCC was affected by the 'radicalism' of the CBN governor, "


MEANWHILE, even as the State House was being prepared to receive Tompolo yesterday, another source confirmed why the Amnesty Deal deadline was not extended.

According to the source in the presidency, "the president, who presided over the meeting where the decision was taken on Tuesday, is of the opinion that there has been success, as only three major militant leaders at the time of the meeting (Tom, Dagogo and Tompolo) from the Rivers-Delta axis were still being expected to embrace the deal,  and they can do that even after the expiration of the amnesty period as the doors are open any time, "

The source said the consensus at the meeting was that "the new condition brought by Tompolo - that Ijaw and Itsekiri are armed and must be disarmed - must be rejected as majority of the militants have embraced the new deal,  and shifting the goal post would not have made any difference in the circumstances, "

The source at the meeting revealed that: "The president noted that there are two other critical phases in the agenda, namely, rehabilitation and integration, which should be pursued immediately, too. They are very critical to the president. Anybody can disarm any time. How can anyone be saying now that we should go to the root of the crisis in the Niger Delta before he can disarm?" This is a veiled reference to the demand of one of the three recalcitrant militants.

The source concluded: "The president believes we should begin to set up structures for rehabilitation and integration of the ones that have surrendered and registered. So we should not be talking about extension that will be a huge distraction."

Meanwhile, in the course of inquiry in the presidency at the weekend, it was discovered that the President's men were still quite worried about the (mis)management of the botched trip to New York for the UN General Assembly.

But it was not clear whether the inquiry included why the Vice President was not dispatched to stand in for the President, who ostensibly prioritized the mission to Saudi Arabia ahead of global assignment in New York.

It was gathered that in the course of the inquiry, even the Permanent

Secretary in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ambassador Joe Keshi, had been quizzed by Security and Intelligence agencies why the Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Maduekwe, who represented the President at the UN Assembly, was not guided to avoid comments on Nigeria's internal political affairs such as politics of INEC and its chairman.

The ambassador was quoted to have said that, "the Minister was misquoted by the press on the issue."

Maduakwe reportedly claimed that it would be surprising if Prof. Maurice Iwu were reappointed given the flawed nature of the 2007 elections he (Iwu) supervised. The comment was said to have irked the office of the President.

The quiet inquiry is part of an ongoing operation by the presidency to determine the suitability of some members of the cabinet that has been adjudged below average.

For instance, it was gathered that the way the Foreign Affairs Minister's men handled the recent visit of the American Secretary of State, Mrs. Hilary Clinton, which led to a situation whereby some US secret agents allegedly entered the bedroom of the Foreign Affairs Minister because they (Americans) failed to collaborate with the internal intelligence. And security authorities have come under scrutiny, too.


Insiders say that the presidency is still smarting from another development during Clinton's visit including the fact that the US Embassy officials arranged a meeting with former heads of state without involving the presidency, a development that led former President Obasanjo to back out, although he was already in Abuja.

As a corollary to this strategic inquiry, despite a recent denial by the presidential spokesman, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, some president's men are part of the very serious probe of many high profile ministers and officials of the presidency that may be shown the way out sooner than later.

In the same vein, another source said that even the president's inner circle members were quite "concerned about lack of remarkable role for the Vice President even in the struggle for the soul of the Niger Delta militants."

"But there is nothing anyone can do about it,  The President cannot sack the Vice President. That is one of the officers he cannot sack because it is a joint mandate, "

There have been hushed discussions in top circles in Abuja in recent times about the role or lack of it for the Vice President even in the affairs of his regional area - the South-South and the Niger Delta.

In response to an inquiry about why there have not been roles for the number two citizen, to assist in state matters, including the alleged botched UN assignment, a source in the presidency said:

"What is that? Would you recall that the Niger Delta schedule was first assigned to the office of the Vice President when there was to be a summit. Recall that the summit changed to a technical committee mysteriously.

"You can see that the President has had to take the issue of amnesty as his own assignment. Even the management of the ruling party should naturally be in the office of the Vice President,  But you should know better what has been happening to us, "

The source did not say, however, the link between the general anomie in the VP's office and the lack of will in the office of the President to delegate the VP, who holds a doctorate degree, to represent Nigeria at the UN General Assembly instead of the Foreign Affairs Minister.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article02/indexn2_html?pdate=041009&ptitle=Banks%20Audit:%20How%20Yar'Adua%20Defused%20Tension